Razor sharpener



I Aug. 6, 1929, BENCZE 1,723,124

' .RAZOR SHARPENER Filed April 27, 1925 l I J I 11 him IN V EN TOR.

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Patented Aug. 6, 1929.

UNITED STATES JOSEPH BEN CZE, 0F YORKVILLE, OHIO.

RAZOR SHARPENER.

Application filed April 27, 1925. Serial No. 26,029.

This invention relates to improvements in razor strops and it is the principal object of the invention to provide a strop for effectively and positively sharpening razor blades.

Another object of the invention is the provision of a strop of simple and inexpensive construction having a plurality of peculiarly shaped openings therein for increasing the stropping effect.

A further object of the invention is the provision of a razor strop made from canvas or other fine mesh fabric covered by a rubber composition.

These and other objects of my invention will become more fully known as the description thereof proceeds and will then be more specifically defined in the appended claim.

In the accompanying drawing, forming a material part of this disclosure:

Fig. l is a top plan view of a strop made according to the invention.

Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section through the strop, Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a top plan vlew of a modified form of my invention on a somewhat enlarged scale.

Fig. 4 is a cross-section on line 4-4, Fig. 3.

The strop comprises a strap made of a canvas background 10, covered on its top by means of a smooth face of rubber 11, and having a handle 12 at one end and an eye 13 at its opposite end allowing the convenient suspension of the strop from a nail, hook, or the like.

The strop illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4 has a plurality of triangularly shaped openings 14 in its upper face arranged in two sections or groups, one group having the apexes 15 of the triangles directed in'one direction, while the other group of the openings has the apexes 16 pointing in the opposite direction. These openings can be filled with any substance adapted to increase the stropping action which, moreover, will be naturally in creased or augmented by the somewhat raised, rubber covered edges of the triangular holes.

As shown in Fig. 3, the openings in the upper rubber surface of the strop are arranged in series diagonally across the width of the strop with the end opening of the lowermost series adjacent the lower left corner of the strop and the successive individual openings arranged diagonally thereacross.

It should be understood that the stropping surface provided in the openings comprises different material than the upper rubber surface and thus the friction of the blade in passing over these two surfaces is different. VJith the diagonal arrangement shown, the blade may be retained at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the strop and opposite to the diagonally arranged openings or it may be held substantially parallel to the width of the strop and in both cases contact with both surfaces throughout the entire length of the strop will exist. The diagonal arrangement thus provided insures a substantially constant and uniform frictional resistance to the razor and prevents a jerky stropping stroke and a shearing action of the blade relative to the surfacing material disposed in the holes.

It is to be understood that such changes may be made in the construction of the minor details of my invention and in its general arrangement, as fall within the scope of the appended claim, without departure from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

A razor strap comprising a canvas body, a rubber stropping surface on said body, diagonally arranged series of units of stropping composition mounted in said strop, said series of units being spaced apart to permit uniform engagement of a portion of the blade with said stropping composition and with said rubber surface during an entire stropping stroke.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my signature.

JOSEPH BENOZE. 

